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Lorenza Villegas doesn't think her doctors should accept free lunches or other types of payments from drug companies.
But like most consumers, she hasn't looked up whether her physicians are among the many who receive money.
"I've got other things on my...

The number of Americans who say they've taken an antidepressant over the past month rose by 65 percent between 1999 and 2014, a new government survey finds.
By 2014, about one in every eight Americans over the age of 12 reported recent antidepressant...

The number of Zika infections has dropped dramatically in Florida this summer, and scientists say herd immunity may be the reason why.
In practical terms, herd immunity means that people traveling to the United States from South America and the...

More than a dozen passengers aboard an Emirates airline flight that crashed in August 2016 sued plane-maker Boeing on Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, blaming an allegedly defective switch.
The Boeing 777-300 flight was headed to Dubai, United...

Adults infected with the Zika virus can develop a number of serious neurological conditions, a new study finds.
Until now, the most troubling Zika-related illness in adults has been Guillain-Barre syndrome, which causes muscle weakness and paralysis.
...

Marijuana may be slightly effective at reducing chronic nerve pain known as neuropathy. But there's little evidence on whether pot helps treat other types of pain or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a pair of new studies suggests.
The findings on...

Tiger Woods had five drugs in his system when he was arrested in May on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to a report Monday. At the time, Woods told authorities that he was taking Vicodin and Xanax, but per ESPN, a toxicology report...

U.S. News and World Report rated Rush Oak Park Hospital as High Performing in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Heart Failure Care in its annual "Best Hospitals" issue, published August 8. The report also highlighted the hospital's four out...

Dolores Munson, 85, got tired last winter of waiting behind a police car that had made a traffic stop about a mile from her home. She swerved into the next lane to pass, but couldn’t help looking to see who had gotten in trouble. “I was nosy,” the...

Until an injury temporarily sidelined him recently, Burt Abramowitz, 81, and his 76-year-old workout partner had a standing commitment three times each week. They'd work out at the Gold's Gym in Rockville, Maryland then go out to eat afterward, usually at...

A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of activists in Charlottesville — killing one person and injuring 19 — long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood with a group of white supremacists hours before Saturday's bloody crash.
The alleged...

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate alcohol use disorder, or what's colloquially known as "alcoholism," rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s. One in 8 American adults, or 12.7 percent of the...

For the first six months of Christian Mumm's life, his family lived on high alert. Christian, who has a genetic disease that causes severe epilepsy, experienced frequent seizures - at his worst, one every 10 minutes - that left him depleted and jumpy. His three older brothers and sisters tiptoed...

Jean Koehrer is fully aware of what many people think when they see her.
Yet another person who can't control her eating or exercise habits … one of the many, as she described it to me, "who is obese, fat and needs to lose weight."
Koehrer is indeed...

A member of the sadistic Ripper Crew, believed to be responsible for the cult-like mutilation sex slayings of as many as 20 women during the early 1980s, is scheduled to be paroled next month.
But, in an effort to thwart his release, prosecutors are...

One woman describes getting slapped and groped on the job. Another was punched in the head repeatedly. A third was bitten so hard that a spike in blood pressure burst an aneurysm in her brain, altering her life forever.
All three are nurses, who say...

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the country's opioid crisis a national emergency, saying the epidemic exceeded anything he had seen with other drugs in his lifetime.
The statement by the president came in response to a question as he spoke to...

A new DNA blood test can catch a rare but deadly form of cancer that occurs in the sinuses, researchers report.
The test, which looks for DNA evidence of Epstein-Barr virus in blood samples, was 97 percent accurate at detecting the presence of...

American kids' ear infections dropped threefold over 10 years, compared to the 1980s, largely due to pneumococcal vaccines that protect against one type of bacteria that causes them, a new study suggests.
However, the study, which tracked more than 600...

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And once again people are questioning the wisdom of children playing football in full gear with...